Rough & Ready in Brooklyn — Douglas DiNunzio

Private eye Eddie Lombardi's just back from WWII, and the detecting business isn't so good. Not until he's hired by the manager of a strip club to find the waitress who stole $500 of the club's money and disappeared. But appearances can be deceiving, black is often white in the detecting world, and before he knows it, Eddie is in the middle of trying to solve a horrific murder that happened twenty years earlier. It's the kind of case that could baffle a Sherlock Holmes, but it's Eddie's case to solve, if he lives long enough...